Dr David Wright

My professional services are genealogy, intestacy, historical research, Latin translation, and philately.

My career has taken me from professional philately to over three decades of genealogical and historical research and writing, by way of the study of the classics and university lecturing, three books on Kentish records, and a biography of Bryan Faussett, the Kentish genealogist, antiquary and archaeologist.

I continue to lecture widely on genealogy and allied subjects, and have taught classical and mediaeval Latin and palaeography at the City Literary Institute, and at both University College, London, and the School of History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. I have been a member of the Kent Family History Society almost from its inception in the 1970s. In 2009, after nearly forty years’ membership, I was awarded a prestigious fellowship of the Society of Genealogists.